Returned immigrants to find new help in Naco, Mexico

Associated Press

Dec. 5, 2007 09:39 AM

SIERRA VISTA- Illegal immigrants returned to Mexico by the U.S. Border Patrol will be able to get help at a new resource center set to open next month in Naco, Mexico.

The Migrant Resource Center is being built by a cross-border partnership between Citizens for Border Solutions in Bisbee and Iglesia del Camino, or Church of the Path, in Naco, Mexico, with support from other organizations and individuals.

The center will provide recently returned migrants with food, water, clothing and blankets and basic necessities like soap or a toothbrush, group members said.

Many of the returned migrants are in "terrible condition," from days spent crossing the desert, said Cecile Lumer of the Bisbee group.

"They may be tired, they may be hungry, they may be sick, they may have lost their medicine, they may not be able to walk because they have terrible blisters on their feet," Lumer said.